Product Description
First edition, first issue with the uncommon L'Envoi leaf, half-title, frontispiece and one plate by J.
Noel Paton, armorial bookplate of James Kenneth Howard on front pastedown, occasional spot, attractive late nineteenth century morocco, gilt edge tooling, corners rubbed.
Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles.
Internally, red marbled endpapers, ffep with publishers mark, tissue guarded, B&W frontis, [7], 4-350 pp, 2 pls, 7 interesting paragraph headers, a.
e.
g.
(201*151 mm).
(Gumuchian 3520; Osborne, p.
359; Sterling I, 529; Tinker 1446).
Kingsley quickly withdrew the first issue with the poem 'L'Envoi', leaving only several hundred copies being published as such.
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